Paper Towns film: production and release (2014)
project history · status: completed · last event: outcome (2015-07-31) · last mentioned: 2024-02-06
The Paper Towns film hired director Jake Schreier in 2014 and was shot in North Carolina from November to December. After its release date moved from June 5 to July 24, 2015, it premiered in New York and came out that week; it was less successful than The Fault in Our Stars.
Parts: Paper Towns movie tour (2015): Europe stops and US states chosen by Tumblr vote · John points viewers to the Night on the Towns screening and cast livestream on July 23 (2015) · John asks viewers to go see the Paper Towns movie (2015)
Told alongside: John travels to Brazil for the Paper Towns premiere, away from home for 28 days (2015) · Turtles All the Way Down film adaptation (2017)
About: Paper Towns (film), North Carolina, Jake Schreier, #wallofcow
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-09-16 | milestone | John reports the Paper Towns film has hired director Jake Schreier and cast Nat Wolff as Q, with a July 31 release planned. | It's Question Tuesday! Cheesy Jokes, Paper Towns Movie, and Dinosaur Butt Brains 00:00:54 |
| 2014-10-28 | milestone | On set in North Carolina a week before filming, John reports the Paper Towns film's cast table read went great. | The Paper Towns Movie IS HERE! 00:03:09 |
| 2014-11-04 | milestone | John reports the Paper Towns film has finished its first day of shooting and it is going well. | Mustaches and Movies: Day One of Paper Towns 00:02:02 |
| 2014-11-17 | milestone | Asked by John how the movie is going, director Jake Schreier says it is going super well. | Combines and Movie Magic: Pizzamas Day 6 00:01:49 |
| 2014-12-23 | milestone | John reports the Paper Towns movie finished shooting a couple of days ago and he is home. | Agloe, New York 00:00:02 |
| 2015-02-03 (said on 2015-01-30, implied) | announced | Asked when the Paper Towns movie comes out, John answers June 5th and says he has seen about ten minutes of it, shown by Jake Schreier in Los Angeles. | Beards, Birds, and the Paper Towns Release Date: Question Tuesday! 00:00:46 |
| 2015-03-10 | setback | John announces the Paper Towns movie's release date has moved to July 24th, the real date, on which he thinks it will really come out. (hedged) | Travel Tips (and Paper Towns Movie Updates) 00:00:16 |
| 2015-05-26 | milestone | The Paper Towns film comes out in about 56 days in the US, at different times elsewhere; John will travel to support the release, at least to Brazil and the UK and probably other places. (hedged) | Sixteen Parts 00:02:58 |
| 2015-06-08 | milestone | John tells Hank the Paper Towns movie is starting to become real. | Monday Bonus Video! 00:00:36 |
| 2015-06-30 | milestone | The night before the Paper Towns film opens in the US on July 24th, a special event on July 23rd in a couple hundred theaters will be its first real public US showing, followed by a livestream with the whole cast and unnamed special guests. | Some News 00:01:47 |
| 2015-07-14 | milestone | John reports the Paper Towns movie has already come out in Brazil with an amazing opening weekend, and the early reviews are great; it opens July 24th. | On Exhaustion 00:01:22 |
| 2015-07-21 | outcome | John says the Paper Towns New York premiere is tonight, the film is already out in Brazil and Australia with great reviews (Variety: better than TFiOS), and it opens July 24th. | PAPER TOWNS IS HERE AND JOHN IS A BALL OF ANXIETY 00:00:38 |
| 2015-07-24 | outcome | Hank says John's Paper Towns movie came out this week (week of 20 July 2015). | From the Main Stage of VidCon! 00:01:53 |
| 2015-07-28 | milestone | John reports the Paper Towns movie is now out in most of the world and thanks viewers who shared responses via #wallofcow. | Paper Towns, Agloe, and Touring: Thoughts from (Many) Places 00:03:29 |
| 2015-07-31 | outcome | Hank says Paper Towns has been, by most measures, less successful than The Fault in Our Stars. | Why Paper Towns is Awesome 00:00:49 |
| 2017-12-05 | looked back | John says they did it again with Paper Towns, and he then thought that had been a good run, since Paper Towns made less money. | On the Movies 00:02:09 |
| 2024-02-06 | looked back | John says Paper Towns was optioned three times before it became a movie. | The Truth of How Books Become Movies 00:00:29 |
Dates are upload dates, which set the order. Where the speaker gives a different recording date in the video, it is added as "said on YYYY-MM-DD, implied" (derived from the date said in the video).
What is said about it
21 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2014-09-16 · It's Question Tuesday! Cheesy Jokes, Paper Towns Movie, and Dinosaur Butt Brains — announcement: John says the Paper Towns film looks really likely to happen: they have hired a director, Jake Schreier, who made Robot & Frank. (hedged) — 00:00:54
- 2014-09-16 · It's Question Tuesday! Cheesy Jokes, Paper Towns Movie, and Dinosaur Butt Brains — announcement: John says his friend Nat Wolff will play Q in the Paper Towns film. — 00:01:02
- 2014-09-16 · It's Question Tuesday! Cheesy Jokes, Paper Towns Movie, and Dinosaur Butt Brains — announcement: John says the Paper Towns film is supposedly coming out on July 31, so it might actually happen. (hedged) — 00:01:02
- 2014-10-28 · The Paper Towns Movie IS HERE! — John is in North Carolina for the Paper Towns movie; filming starts in a week, he slept in director Jake Schreier's apartment and had pizza with Cara Delevingne. — 00:00:01
- 2014-10-28 · The Paper Towns Movie IS HERE! — John heads to the read-through, where everyone will hear the cast read the script for the first time. — 00:02:53
- 2014-10-28 · The Paper Towns Movie IS HERE! — John: The table read went great; John is exhausted but so excited about the Paper Towns movie and grateful to everyone coming together to make it. — 00:03:09
- 2014-11-04 · Mustaches and Movies: Day One of Paper Towns — John: At 5:48 a.m. John says the Paper Towns movie starts filming in about an hour and 12 minutes, and he is extremely excited and nervous. — 00:00:00
- 2014-11-04 · Mustaches and Movies: Day One of Paper Towns — John: One scene shot that day was the first part of Paper Towns John ever wrote, about nine years ago: little Q and Margo biking up to a dead body; he found it weird and wonderful and cried a little. — 00:02:37
- 2014-11-17 · Combines and Movie Magic: Pizzamas Day 6 — John: director Jake Schreier wears a suit to set every day and his shoe game is exceptionally strong. (playful) — 00:01:42
- 2014-12-23 · Agloe, New York — John says six years later, largely thanks to readers still caring about Q, Margo and Agloe, Hollywood made a movie; he met the people he'd imagined and visited Agloe with them. — 00:02:24
- 2015-02-03 (said on 2015-01-30, implied) · Beards, Birds, and the Paper Towns Release Date: Question Tuesday! — John says he watched about ten minutes of the Paper Towns movie that Jake Schreier showed him in Los Angeles, and he is very excited. — 00:00:49
- 2015-03-10 · Travel Tips (and Paper Towns Movie Updates) — John calls the new date good news because Jake and everybody will have time to actually finish the movie. — 00:00:24
- 2015-03-17 · What Are Paper Towns? — announcement: John says the Paper Towns trailer comes out on Thursday, which is why he is in the airport: he has to go be on The Today Show. — 00:00:23
- 2015-05-26 · Sixteen Parts — announcement: John: July 24 is both the Paper Towns release date and the first day of VidCon, which John jokes will be relaxing. — 00:03:15
- 2015-05-26 · Sixteen Parts — John can't believe the Paper Towns film is under two months away; it gives him a fear-excitement, throat-tightening feeling he has a complicated relationship with but recommends over mouth pain. (playful) — 00:03:28
- 2015-06-23 · Question Tuesday with Cara Delevingne and Nat Wolff — announcement: The description says the Paper Towns film comes out in US theaters on July 24th, which the video forgot to mention. — video description
- 2015-06-30 · Some News — John: Last night Sarah and a group of John's friends saw the Paper Towns film for the first time and, he thinks, really liked it. (hedged) — 00:01:21
- 2015-07-14 · On Exhaustion — announcement: John: The Paper Towns movie opens July 24th; it already opened in Brazil with an amazing opening weekend, and the early reviews are great, a huge relief to John. — 00:01:15
- 2015-07-21 · PAPER TOWNS IS HERE AND JOHN IS A BALL OF ANXIETY — announcement: John says the movie comes out Friday, July 24th, with a special screening on Thursday at many theaters around the US and Canada. — 00:00:47
- 2015-07-21 · PAPER TOWNS IS HERE AND JOHN IS A BALL OF ANXIETY — announcement: John: Correcting himself, John says the movie is already out in Brazil, Australia and elsewhere, critics have seen it and reviews are great; Variety said it was better than The Fault in Our Stars. — 00:01:27
- 2015-07-28 · Paper Towns, Agloe, and Touring: Thoughts from (Many) Places — John says the Paper Towns movie is out in most of the world and thanks everyone who watched it and shared responses via Nerdfighteria's #wallofcow. — 00:03:29